8 Reflective Questions To Help Any Student Think About Their Learning
What’s the most important thing you learned today? Why do you think so? What can or should a person do with what they know?
The 20 Most Useful #hashtags In Education
Hashtags in education can help you make valuable connections whether you’re a teacher, principal, or superintendent.
The Pros & Cons Of Children On Social Media
What Are The Pros & Cons Of Children On Social Media? contributed by Jennifer Smith In our social media-charged society, it’s easy to assume that children should not be on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Concerns range from safety to attention span to diminished ‘real life’ social skills to posture, blue light, and other dangers…
6 Ways Social Media Can Change Your Classroom
So how do we incorporate healthy social media use in the classroom? The following Sylvia Duckworth graphic offers some helpful initial ideas.
Twitter Is Shallow And Social Media Is Superficial. Right?
“Twitter…tends toward superficiality and draws people away from serious communication…(and) is not a medium of a serious interchange.”
50 Of The Best Education Accounts On Twitter
Rather than allow one genre to dominate the list, we chose to collect a diverse range of 50 of the best education accounts on Twitter.
What’s A Twitter Chat? An Example And Definition For Teachers
A twitter chat is a public discussion based on a topic through a series of questions that serve as discussion prompts–all using a unifying hashtag.
Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking
It would make sense that as tech becomes more integrated, accessible, and smarter, those connections will deepen as our priorities change.
What Your Social Media Habits Say About Your Teaching Style
What Do Your Social Media Habits Reveal About Your Teaching Style? You’re a lurker—love social media, but more the media than the social, so you stay in the background—looking, skimming, saving, and skimming and looking some more, but always quietly, and always just out of sight. You spend an hour or two tops online—just the basics—messages, some shopping…
Generation Screen: What Social Media Has Done To Children
For some in ‘Generation Screen,’ things that are ‘viral’ can be seen as preferable to things that affect and endure.
Should Colleges Judge Social Media Presence for Admissions?
Without guidance to critically think about digital footprints, persona, and audience, it’s no surprise to see students ‘make mistakes’ on social media.
Helping Students Tell Their Story Through Social Media
Human beings are storytellers by nature. Children especially love to hear stories, but aren’t always so keen on telling their own.
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